St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-08
DONE BY THE CHAMBER.

Matters of Business Resolutions i'm
Honor of the late Conrad GotZian.
AT the meeting of the board of directors
of the chamber of commerce yesterday
morning a communication was read from
the Duluth chamber of commerce relative
to Il convention on the condition OF the
Sault Ste. Marie canal. The president was
requested to acknowledge its receipt and to
appoint delegates to attend. 4 communi-
cation was read from the second assistant
postmaster general, informing the board
that daily communication would commence
Oh the Chicago, Burlington q Northern
road between Oregon. ILL.,, and st. Paul on
the 10th inst. The mercantile committee
offered resolution approving the proposed
worlds exposition to be held in 1892 at the
national capital, in honor of the 400th an
niversary of the discovery of America by
Columbus. and recommending that steps be
promptly taken by the general government
to provide for and carry on the enterprise.
MIR. GOTZIAN'S DEATH.
Gen. Sanborn offered the following in re-
gard to the recent death of Conrad Gotzan.
and after a few remarks by Messrs. Hodg-
son, Merrill and Day the same was adopted:
Resolved, That in the sudden death of Con-
rad Gotzian, the chamber of commerce has
lost one of its Oldest and strongest members.
the community one of the wiseSt and most
upright of its cOunSelOrs the city and state
one of its best citizens and the public chart
ties one of the most benevolent and beneficent
of their supporters, and that in common with
the entire community we sincerely mourn his
loss while we bow in humble submission to
the DEGREES of that inscrutable Providence,
that divine wisdom whose purposes we can
not fathom, whose way is in the sea, whose
path is in the great waters and whose foot
steps are unknown, that in the meridian of
his years and usefulness has called him hence
TO be here no more. death pluckS the stars
to deck his sable crown"
Resolved, That from the darkness that
surrounds the tomb of such man is re-
Elected and revealed more clearly the virtues
and triumphs of his life, and out of this
darkness we more clearly comprehend those
great virtues that enabled him under the
protection and influences of our benign inst-
tutions and laws, which he always Supported
and cherished with patience and conteptment,
to gradually win his way from the position of
honorable daily manualIabor to that of a mer-
chant prince, giving employment to hundreds
OF incorporating to them the same avenues to
success that he had travelled, and during his
whole course illustrating and personifying
integrity and honor, aiding every charity,
contributing to the poor, and giving largely
both in time and money to every public
enterprise and purpose, and upon all matters
of public concern, without ostentation,
giving the advantages and deductions of his
naturally sound and mature judgment, and
at the same time discharging in fullest
degree the more congenial duties of hus-
band, father and friend, ard that we COM
mend his life as one worthy to be initiated
and followed by all.
Resolved, That copy of the foregoing
resolutions be spread upon the records of the
chamber, and an engrossed copy of the same,
signed by the president and attested by the
secretary, be forwarded to the family of the
deceased.